Cold War General
What country got split and controlled by the allied powers after WW2?
Germany
What was the belief that America needed to stop the spread of Communism?
Containment / Truman Doctrine
What was the name of the Satellite that the Soviets successfully got to space?
Sputnik
What was the result of the Korean War?
Country still split / Stalemate.
What did Churchill call the divide between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War?
The Iron Curtain
Which alliance was formed to promote democracy and capitalism?
NATO
Who was the President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
Who was in charge of the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War?
Joseph Stalin
What was Mao Zedong's 5 year plan called to industrialize and transform China?
The Great Leap Forward
What was the theory that if one country would fall to Communism than others near by would soon follow?
Domino Theory
Whose idea was it to give money to Turkey and Greece in hopes they would not turn to Communism? (Not a country but a person)
George Marshall: The Marshall Plan
Who was the President when the Berlin Wall fell?
Ronald Reagan
Which side of Germany did the Soviet Union control during the Cold War?
East Germany
Who was the leader of North Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
What was the organization created after World War 2 to promote peace and unity between nations?
United Nations
What was the name of the Conference at the end of WW2 called that decided the fate of Germany?
Potsdam Conference
Détente
Which Soviet leader installed "Destalinization" and was in charge during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Khrushchev
Which US president visited China and met with Mao in order to open trade discussions?
Nixon
To the closest decade how many years did the Berlin Wall stand?
28 years or three decades
Where did the Soviets create an alliance with other communist European nations?
Warsaw
What was the failed invasion on Cuba called?
The Bay of Pigs
What was the name given to the Czechoslovakian revolution that occurred before the Soviets violently shut it down?
Prague Spring
Where did the Nationalists in China flee to once they lost the civil war?
Taiwan
What was the name given to the young group of Chinese citizens who led the Cultural Revolution?
Red Guard